07-10-2002, 01:32 PM
I think this subject has been hashed to death... (no criticism to this thread)...religon is such a muddled and warped subject these days...and I feel there are two GREAT books on the subject that really make you question your beliefs in religon:
Tom Robbins Skinny Legs And All which maybe one of the greatest books I've ever read (besides Umbreto Eco's Foucault's Pendalum)
And
Gore Vidal's Creation which talks about how the Persian Empire really took alot of the religons floating around, and mixed them up (Adam & Eve is actually based on an old Indian tale)...and how the empires spurred forth the current incarnations of Christianity, Islam and Judiasm. All three are basically the mixture of many tales, myths and mysticism. It's a real eye-opener.
Religon, to me, is merely our decision on how to explain things...mostly about things we are ignorant of. Therefore, based on that ignorance, I feel it's merely fiction.
Tom Robbins Skinny Legs And All which maybe one of the greatest books I've ever read (besides Umbreto Eco's Foucault's Pendalum)
And
Gore Vidal's Creation which talks about how the Persian Empire really took alot of the religons floating around, and mixed them up (Adam & Eve is actually based on an old Indian tale)...and how the empires spurred forth the current incarnations of Christianity, Islam and Judiasm. All three are basically the mixture of many tales, myths and mysticism. It's a real eye-opener.
Religon, to me, is merely our decision on how to explain things...mostly about things we are ignorant of. Therefore, based on that ignorance, I feel it's merely fiction.
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